Ensemble Cairn, Guillaume Bourgogne - Pesson: Blanc mérité (2018) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist
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01. Carmagnole
02. Musica ficta: Répéter la forêt (Hommage à Giuseppe Penone)
03. Musica Ficta: Nembutal (Une berceuse pour Jean Genet)
04. Musica Ficta: Une pensée pour la mer Égée
05. Ne pas oublier coq rouge dans jour craquelé (Moments Proust)
06. Musica Ficta: @vec Maria (Sur la scala enigmatica de Giuseppe Verdi)
07. Musica Ficta: Roméo est en miettes (Hommage à Charles-Valentin Alkan)
08. Musica Ficta: Origami Chopin
09. Six transformations du menuet K. 355 de Mozart: Original
10. Six transformations du menuet K. 355 de Mozart: Glissé
11. Six transformations du menuet K. 355 de Mozart: Hoquet
12. Six transformations du menuet K. 355 de Mozart: Sur quatre notes
13. Six transformations du menuet K. 355 de Mozart: Tyrolienne
14. Six transformations du menuet K. 355 de Mozart: À la manière d'Olivier Messiaen
15. Neige bagatelle
16. Blanc mérité (Avec Roman Opalka)
Lucid music. Vivacity, wit, intensity, foldings and unfoldings of the pointillist material, embracing the thing itself and its contradiction - sensuality, drollery, dances, abysses like sudden draughts of air. Movement and standstill.
Music that slaps, pinches, bites, muffles, growls. Here Pesson reinvigorates what might (already) be his own classicism (Carmagnole); draws a pencil moustache on Mozart, who is more than willing to wear it (Transformations du Menuet K. 355); hounds his language so far into the corner that it seems different, and probably becomes so, in the intransigent light of Opałka (Blanc mérité); a language that ramifies and scintillates in Proust (Ne pas oublier coq rouge dans jour craquelé); grows geometric in Perec (Neige bagatelle); and denudes itself in 'enfantines' (Musica ficta). The Ensemble Cairn, a faithful partner of the label, under its director Guillaume Bourgogne, leads us into territories that could hardly be droller.